Interlibrary loan (ILL) in Denmark, Poul Erlandsen

Why am I Presenting in English?

•First of all because the organizers asked me to do so

•Secondly because my Swedish is terrible

•But let’s take a little test:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18Jb72ZahTk

Interlibrary Loan in DenmarkPoul ErlandsenThe Royal Library / CUL

New Building - Interior

New Building – Reading Room

Old Building – Library Garden View

Old Building – Reading Room

ILL Staff at Work

Receiving ILL Borrowing Books

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdfUhqItixc

When the library closes it sometimes turns into a disco

- And the staff gets a new role:

Presentation Overview

• ILL Framework in Denmark1. Library Law2. Principles & Guidelines3. Volume4. Transportation System5. Article Delivery to End Users

• Library.dk1. Automation2. New User Interface

• Example of Local Implementation

Map of Denmark

Map of Denmark

Interlibrary Loan Is Free

Keywords…

•Cooperation•National Union Catalogue

•The Danish Agency for Culture

•Library Acts since 1920

Act Regarding Library ServicesPublic Libraries:Through participation in the general interlibrary loan service the public libraries must endeavour to provide the users with such material as the library itself does not possess.University / Academic Libraries: (2) A government library is at the disposal of anyone for use on the premises and for loan of material and participates in the libraries’ general interlibrary loan co-operation in so far as the task forms part of the prerequisite for the grant to the library.(3) A library which receives subsidy from the government is at the disposal of anyone for use on the premises and for loan of material and participates in the libraries’ general interlibrary loan co-operation in so far as the task forms part of the prerequisite for the subsidy to the library.

New Principles and Guidelines for Interlibrary Loan in Denmark – Pulished December 2012

Based upon the seven principles in the Rethinking Resource Sharing Manifesto

http://www.kulturstyrelsen.dk/institutioner/biblioteker/nationale-ordninger/laanesamarbejde/ny-udgave-af-principper-og-retningslinjer-for-laanesamarbejdet-mellem-danske-biblioteker/

Principles

•Fewer restrictions•Imposed only as necessary

•Lowest possible barriers to fulfillment presented

Principles

•Users can choose from options•delivery format•method of delivery• fulfillment type

• loan, copy, digital copy, and purchase

Principles

•Global access•Use both formal and informal networking agreements

•Goal is lowest barrier to fulfillment

Principles

•Libraries and cultural heritage institutions•Resources from all types available

•Expertise from all types utilized

Principles

•Reference service facilitates sharing•Use reference expertise to aid fulfillment

•No findable object should be totally unattainable

Principles

•Everyone a library user•Registration should be as easy as signing up for commercial web services

Important Statement

•However, no library can be expected to have any material needed by a user available in its own physical collection, and the number of purchased copies may subsequently prove not to meet the needs of the users of the individual library.

ILL Borrowing Requests Through DanBib

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Library Courier

Lorry arriving at loading dock

Plastic bins used for transport

Library Courier

Materials awaiting courier pick up

Address paper slips + rubber bands

Test of Service

Scientificarticles.dk

Search Result

Request Screen

Library.dk – End User Interface

Search Results

Availability Check

Request Book on ILL

Choose Pick Up Library

Your Details or Register

Automation

•In 2012 more than 850.000 of these requests made in library.dk were fully automated

•New plans for automation coming in 2013

New User Interface Coming 2013

All records and holdings in WC

Info to users from abroad

QUESTIONS?

POER@KB.DK

Thank you for your attention!